The Ku Klux Klan were DEMOCRATS.
"In many areas, the Klan served as the clandestine military arm of the Democratic party, which stridently opposed all aspects of Reconstruction."
The story of how the Ku Klux Klan started in the 160s has echoes in today's political climate.
time.com
This has been changed recently..interesting.
"The Klan enjoyed a last spurt of growth in 1928, when
Alfred E. Smith, a Catholic, received the Democratic presidential nomination."
Ku Klux Klan - Revival, Racism, Terrorism: The 20th-century Klan had its roots more directly in the American nativist tradition. It was organized in 1915 near Atlanta, Georgia, by Col. William J. Simmons, a preacher and promoter of fraternal orders who had been inspired by Thomas Dixon’s book...
www.britannica.com
The Klan is not Republicans, they were formed by Democrats to do clandestine violence against Republicans and ReConstruction efforts. Democrats have replaced them with their paid lemming brownshirt hordes now.